Hacker News on 2 August 2016

• Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay
• Show HN: Noms – A new decentralized database based on ideas from Git
• How to Read a Book [pdf]
• Inside font-rs, a font renderer written in Rust
• Judge wipes out patent troll’s $625M verdict against Apple
• What’s Next for Multi-Process Firefox
• Show HN: Sharingbuttons.io – Fast and easy social media sharing buttons
• I Love Go; I Hate Go
• Verizon: We Can't Become Dumb Pipes
• How to Write a Novel